New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-16

FIGURES SHOWING THE ENORMOUS AMOUNT AND
GREAT VALUE or THE MATTER HANDLED.
Postmaster Pearson mas received from the heahs Oh
departments ia the Post Office their usual reports snow"
Ing detail the business transacted during the year end
ing December 81 1856 During the year there were de
vered through lock boxes and by carriers 2o3-3'oo"
pieces Of ordinary mail matter, divided az fohows'
Letters through boxes, GO5G29sj ny carriers. 12o-
237 800 Postal cards. through boxes. 0,44soS2i ny
carriers, 1856 Other mail matter through ooAeS'
80, 139. 397 by carriers. 5,3S2.053.
In the Registered Letter Department 1,11053l pieces
delivered and 746 la OF domestic and 47l6oS OF
foreign origin recorded and distributed to other offices
In the Distribution Department total OF 52i,s3i'43f
pieces were handled divided as follows: Letters-or
local origin rs 763 s6O received by mail, 27,5Ol,sso
foreign dispatched 21676439. Postal cards-Of local
origin 440 966 received by mail, 6S75472; foreign
dspatc I'd. l140,S65. Other matter-Of local orign'
32s pol Ois received by mall 33,9iso32 foreign DIS
patched 232i5,S72 The total number OF pieces or man
matter OF all kinds handled during tho year was
S204lG.57O a daily average of 2,493,667
The ordinary mail matter handled was contained III
S45 73G lock pouches and 293 sacks including to
foreign mail OF which there 93,179 sacks received
and 100000 dispatched. besides which there were
handled 63Ol and 1916 pouches of registered
matter and 6,7G6 pouches and 15.473 sacks OF sup
plies There also passed through the New-York Post
ONCE in transit from and other Offices 13l2l5 pouches
and 2GS,3jS sacks of mail matter making
n total of 3G59.l21 pouches, cases and SACKS
handled at the Office daily OF 1ll22 exclusive
Of those which the fifteen branch offices exchanged WIN
each other and with the General Office
The volume OF Money order business was as follows'
At the General Post Office. 9039l9 money orders wcro
issued and paid amounting to S9,657775 49, and 7so,
postal notes. amounting to 81 .39lS70 10 At the hrceh
branches the number OF orders issued and paid was
ISL 62 amounting s79 $40 IT, and the number OF
postal al ISL amounting TO SS7412 A. The aggre
gate business Of the Money Order Department Tor the
wear amounted S7I 233 O36 e. giving increase In
the business the previous year OF SG9s.7l3 81
The total receipts OF the Office $i59S,392 - anu
! tho total expenditures Sl.G75.497 % Oncludihg
S6Gi IFS l6 expended for Free Delivery seryce giving
/ net revenue OF 81 1902. S95 20.
The number OF employees IL 2oi6 including 703 regular
and 1872 substitute carriers and fifteen substitute clerks
The number OF domestic mails ranging from 10 10 'oo
bags each. dispatched daily to mail trains IA 132; re-
ccycd from mail trains li2; received from district
Offices 126; dispatched to district Offices. H. Inc
routes which these mails dispatched cover d5
lance OF ,542 miles daily. ,
The foreign mails dispatched averaged eighteen week
Foreign mails both Inward and outward frequently III
nine twOhGrse trucks for their transportation. g.,
Tho total weight of mails received and dispatcher daiy
during $50 1881 tons showing. az compared WIN
the for 1881 l5O tOnsl an increase III n'c cars VI
- per cent